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Flatness in Space

For the project I decided to try to shoot it on M.F.
That turned out quite interesting. I tried Bronica Range Finder ad i can say that i really like the camera. It has the high resolution as other MF camera, but it is more comfortable to use. it is light and handy.
The things that i didn't like about the camera was the lens that it had with it from the University media hug stores and the shutter speeds. it doesn't go faster then 500th of a second. And because i like faster films then 400 hundred because of their grainniness i can' t use this one with them. Although that is a good excersise about thinking through the relationships and connections between the amount of light outside, the film speeds, the apertures the lens offer and the shutter speeds.

I walked around Luton to document some sort of flatness, but in time i understood that it is quite hard to do.
over the year i found myself collecting a number of images that in my oppinion represents flatness in space.
these are film scans from the medium format Bronica with Ilford HP4.

Screen Printing - Four Colour Separation

3 colours out of 4

 All 4 colours

As one of our projects in screen printing we had to print a four colour separated image. 

We had to choose and A4 size image that suits our wishes and needs and would be appropriate for the task. It could be an image taken by us or by someone else, or not even a photograph.

I chose one of my own images that shows my friend with a yellow balloon in her hand in front of rubber attraction space.

I remember our old teacher told us that there is no point in making a 4cs on an image that will come out as same as the original image - too much of a struggle.

I separated the four different colour channels in photoshop and then I halftoned most of the image, leaving the girl as it is so she could stand out more. 

After the image was exposed I noticed that the emulsion is coming of the frame and that some details are going to be lost. But I decided to print it anyway to see how bad was the damage, but you can barely notice it. 

I knew that the image is going to be more saturated and brighter in colours then it is on the computer screen or printed with an ink jet printer.

I have to admit that i didn't think it will be so contrasty and that the person will loose so much of detail and colour. But I am pleased with the prints.

I printed and edition of 9 prints and another one with just the key colour on a white sheet of paper. 

Most of the prints are very well lined up and printed quite neatly, besides the blue layer that failed because the emulsion started to come off while the screen was washed after exposing.

This is my first experience in 4cs so I feel quite pleased with myself about how the prints came out. 

Vernacular

Vernacular photography are pictures taken by a non professional taking everyday life as a subject - that's how I would call it. Probably everyone else would say something similar.

In some odd way, it goes through my mind as an odd choice for a subject matter from a successful photographer, but on the other hand their way of capturing the everyda

y life has made them who they are now.

But in this time, when we are surrounded by millions of images on all possible media, selling all possible social statuses and all the perfect new season looks

 and what is supposed to be beauty, how does a non-professional photographer choose his or her brilliant picture to post on facebook.com or any other internet space like that?!

Cindy Sherman choose to take images of herself in situations that h

ave been attached to women and how they should react in a certain moments. 

There seems to be an image of how a young woman should look. Or what i

s attractive.

Log onto facebook.com. I see all these girls posing like th

ey see Kate Moss do it in the Vogue or any other magazine. 

Pretending to be what they are not, trying to get more attention, more compliments on how good they look and how wonderful those pictures are.

I chose some of them and put myself in them. I made pictures of myself for a facebook like environment and then put them back on there.

I think I failed miserably. Mostly in getting that attention and c

omments on my pictures. One thing that the pictures truly are not good and people see that and don't like them, or me in them.

On the other hand I feel like I have gained a lot in not being admired for this project, because I never admire someone else's.

These kind of pictures are like a phenomenon for the new ge

neration girls who seek approval. It is quite sad, but I think it is worth to be admired as well for their desperate wish to be better, Vogue better... 

Prague

In between the ten hours I had to spend in Prague I tried to ignore that I am absolutely freezing and that I can't feel my fingertips and take some pictures.

Like every time I am in a new town I am more around being a tourist then a photographer (not sure it is a good thing). 

My favorite picture is the one with the wall drawing in the arch. Think there is more symbolism in there then I could possibly figure out.